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enAssessing the Threathttp://www.technologyreview.com/notebook/405422/assessing-the-threat/
<p>To predict the effects of bioweapons, we need more data.</p><p>Could terrorists, intent on causing as much harm and societal disruption as possible, use new biotechnology processes to engineer a virulent pathogen that, when unleashed, would result in massive numbers of dead? Mark Williams, in his article “<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/BioTech/wtr_16485,306,p1.html" target="_blank">The Knowledge</a>,” suggests we should be contemplating this doomsday scenario in the 21st century. Williams’s article might make you sleep less soundly, but are the threats real? The truth is that we do not really know. </p>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:00:00 +0000http://www.technologyreview.com/notebook/405422/assessing-the-threat/Is the Yucca Nuke Dump All Wet?http://www.technologyreview.com/news/402209/is-the-yucca-nuke-dump-all-wet/
<p>The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository assumes geological stability over 10,000 years. Too bad the government didn’t pay more attention to what geologists had to say.</p><p>Last year, Congress and the President approved the lone site characterized by the Department of Energy as suitable for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Now, large quantities of highly toxic waste produced at the nation’s nuclear power plants and the nuclear weapons complex may have a place to go-that is, if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves the location for licensing.</p>Wed, 22 Oct 2003 04:00:00 +0000http://www.technologyreview.com/news/402209/is-the-yucca-nuke-dump-all-wet/